JLee81

I am going to run with lots of cars tonight up to x00km/h.
Will tell my highest speed.

Vomit

Where is the freaking info?

Throw me a bone here.

ndabunka

Since his original post was entered a few days ago, it apears apparent that the capabilities of the vehicle exceededthe abilities of the driver. Hopefully, he will still be able to post from his hospital bed after his injuries are attended too. LOL (Please read this post in the manner intended - humor).

Vomit

LOL. Actually, if the accident occurred anywhere near the limits of his car, you would be more likely to find him in the morgue than in the hospital.

Or, in the famous words of Dan Akroyd in (my fav movie ever) Nothing But Trouble, "If it's an ambulance, you've got a chance. If its a hearse, its gotta be worse."

JLee81

290km/h.

JLee81

pulled away from stock E55 at 240km/h. Not Kidding..
CLK55 is an amazing powerplant.

Vomit

I assume that we are talking about a 210 E55? Give us some more info on your test.

JLee81

nope W211 E55 it was.
the length was about 12m away to begin with because W211 jumped fairly before I did. the gap was consistent until about 200km/h and then it started to shrink after that speed. about 220km/h I was slowly catching up with E55.
When I did 155mph, I passed E55 already. W211 E55 was still accelerating.
And the car continued on uptil 178mph(digital meter) then the tollgate appeared in my sight along speeding cameras.
Believe it or not this is true. The weather was hot and humid and those conditions are not good for both NA and S/C cars.
I love my CLK55.

JamE55

JLee,

Have you dynoed your car recently? And if so how much juice are you putting down to the ground(rwhp)?

Vomit

Can a CLK55 with intake, exhaust, pullies, and ignition mods be putting out the 360-370 RWHP that would be required to pull on a 211 E55 at high speeds?

JamE55

With those mods you mentioned i don't think you'll be putting out that much HP? A 211 E55 is putting down an average 420rwhp so you'll need more than that to match it. Maybe if you have a s/c that would be even.

Vomit

The 360-370 figure which I used was accounting for what I believe is the lower weight and frontal area/coefficient of drag of the CLK vs. the 211 E55. Maybe it would take 380 or 390. . . The point was that the smaller CLK could match the 211 with fewer ponies than the 211.

Whether a CLK55 with the mods listed could put down anything approaching the HP necessary to beat a 211 in a high speed run is another question. I will defer on this point to those of you who have modded and dynoed your CLK55, but I have my doubts.

If the modded CLK55 in question is putting the 320-330 HP to the pavement that I suspect he is, then the logical conclusion is that the 211 E55 in question was not operating at full potential.

I remember reading on the E55 forum that several people had experienced instances in which their superchargers essentially shut off because of overheating. I wonder if that is what might have happened to this particular E55 that seemed to poop out during the high-speed run.

JLee81

my cars last dyno in the states was 344rwhp and 360rwtq at ACS racing near Boston.

Vomit

No offense or flame intended, JLee, but those numbers probably would not be enough to pull on a properly-running 211. My guess is that his supercharger overheated and shut down (which would explain why he was still accelerating, but slower than you).

Oh, and BTW, those are damned impressive numbers for a CLK55! Have you run the 1/4 mile with your car?

Vadim @ evosport

It is not that compressor overheated, it is that fluid pump that circulates coolant through intercooler circuit - fails. A lot of times it fails intermittently causing a lot of confusion. When it does shut-off, DME will turn off kompressor clutch at 225F of Air Intake Temperature and will restart it at 180F.

M5KILLR

then why did mine fail twice?
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55 ON IT

Simple bolt-ons aren't going to cut beating a f/i car with a some what "similar" motor. Either the E55 was having issues with it's sc or you have a very SPECIAL CLK.

JLee81

Whatever the reason is, it happened. If the design of kompressor engine is not good enough to endure a high temperature driving then oh well... that is something they should upgrade.

x-tian-230k

i vouch for Jlee...he don't lie......

Kar don

in realistic driving the W211 ownz the C209.

Vomit

Nobody is claiming that he is lying. I believe 100% that he beat the 211 in a high speed run. The issue is "why the 211 lost, when, on paper, it should rock even a well-modded CLK55"

I just like his numbers. He has bumped his HP and TQ by 50 or so in each category. THAT is pretty nice. Good enough to beat alot of cars that would smash a stock CLK55. I would really like to see him line up with a Z06 Vette.

Vomit

And there is a solid logic to your position. Who cares why the 211 lost. . . the fact is that you beat him fair and square.

M5KILLR

well, you wouldnt go around saying your car can beat an f430 because he missed a couple shifts would ya? youd look silly. you BEAT a car when you can do it consistantly or best out of XXX on a track. you pulled on 1 car on 1 day but you honestly know this cant be repeated repeatedly. nice car btw, as soon as they come out with a true clk dtm body mod im doing a s/c clk dtm replica sans the interior.

str8ridin

Just to throw a bone in the argument, you said that you got the SpeedTuningUSA chip which eliminated the vMax. My buddy just had the same ECU upgraded in his CLK by SpeedTuningUSA (done by Oliver) and when he tested it, the governer was still there. He sent the ECU back in for a more "aggresive" setting and when he installed it and tested the top speed governer again, it was still there...bouncing off the governer like no tomorrow. Oliver's response was someting to the effect of, "No one has really ever tested it, so I didn't know that it doesn't work.."

And yours worked?

JLee81

Mine is no more Oliver's program. His program does not work at all. I went through the same process and experienced the same situation. I redid the ECU and it was still there. So I decided to go with another ecu tuner and they were "skillful" enough to redo my ecu with top speed limiter removed.
Oliver's program is a bunch of BS.